Joji Morishita Editor

Nikolas Sellheim is an independent consultant on international conservation law with a specialisation on the IWC and CITES. He is also co-Editor-in-Chief of Polar Record in the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has published extensively on different conservation regimes and has conducted two post-docs at Kobe University, Japan, and University of Helsinki, Finland.

Joji Morishita is a retired Professor at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan. Since 2013 he had served as Japan’s Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and from 2016 to 2018 he served as the Chair of the IWC.